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Isn't it illegal to skin according to GSS?
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ok.
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Hey, at least their brakes hold. I knew you were being sarcastic, and so was I. You coming to CB to try RTMs would be like, IDK, a vampire coming out to a daylight. That would be the last time anybody would see you here. But speaking of brakes... I saw a guy yesterday at Montage, and he was going up the Fastrack on what looked like alpine skis with touring bindings (his heels were not attached). He was literally just ignoring the lift and was marching up the slope with a backpack. Maybe it was his Pizza day resolution to climb Montage that way, IDK. What looked weird was that he was going up like he was going cross country, with his skis parallel. And yet he never slipped. How was it possible?
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First page of this thread. You said you had fun on RTMs until it turned into mashed potatoes. I don't think ease of putting skis on edge is what being nimble describes. Maybe I'm wrong.
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What's the problem? The Loft at CB right now, this very moment, demoes all kinds of RTMs. And skiing in the rain is a joy to you
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How could I have missed this?? This is like a ray of light reflecting of a chandelier in the room full of divas and diva talks and briefly lighting the nearby barracks where all the skis are just piled into two categories: gaper skis and the skis that fucking rip. But your assessment of RTMs is not without doubts. If it's burly, how's it nimble? And why does it not like crud like you've said a few posts earlier?
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Really? Even I'm used to these OKs by now and you can tell that salty is more confused with your ??? than with ok. I liked your comments on weight. Sizing by height is really only part of the story. But I think that it's better to err on the stiffer side than softer. A stiff ski may not bend and change radius, but it's nothing compared to a soft ski that simply wouldn't hold on edge.
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5/32", and yes I had. By the size of the drill bit you can tell that I didn't tap it either, didn't use a drill press and overall am a cheapskate, LOL.
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You're right and I apologise. There isn't much going on in the BM section. A teaser pic of a monoski, a typically exhaustive list of all the lodge inhabitants and a meteo of trail condition. In comparison Montage rocks today.
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Take it to the Blue thread. Orders from GSS.
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[bows] Btw, can someone explain to me please why the hell are BM's card readers so lame and slow? I mean, MC has exactly the same system, and the cards are read in a blink of an eye. In Austria there were RFID readers all over the place and I never ever had to wait for the card to be scanned. But at BM I regularly have to spend 5 secs until it finally detects the card in my sleeve. No other cards or phones anywhere near, and yet it just takes its sweet time. Every time.
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Did you derive this part from the map, aerial shot or tea on the bottom of your cup? True skiers will never be seen at MC for they'll feel like cows on ice on Granite Peak. Which is indeed icy.
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Ah, you meant CB has great horizontal. I thought Hunter. Got it now.
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Even worse. One convenient thing for me was that there is a bus departing early-early morning not too far from where I live. Kinda nice to sleep instead of driving, and the price is not very different.
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It has a great what? Ziplines are to die for. But horizontal is something I haven't thought of.
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More like in 3. Spoke to a girl from PHL on the lift. She was wondering the same: why in the world am I not skiing Catskills?? Because I don't compare Catskills to Montage, I compare them to BM or CB, which are only 1:40-1:50 away.
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One unbelievable and yet typical thing from that thread is the never ending comparison to the True Blue. Everybody who has common sense is saying that BM is a murder scene on a weekend, and yet "but if you leave before 10... but if you squeeze yourself to the far left after the gates... but if you're a VIP... but it's an express..."
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The blues would be ideal to teach someone how to ski. Everybody says that Shawnee is the best mountain for a newbie, but Upper Montage is better. So wide and easy... Shawnee's Lower Pennsylvania is just too narrow for a newbie to ski comfortably. With that said, Shawnee's express is hard to beat. People can talk all they want about slow lifts building up anticipation for a good run, but when you ride up for 14 mins and ski down only 1-2 mins, it's a disaster. You die of boredom on the way up, and if on the way down you run into a crowd and have to stop, the whole run is wasted, and now you have to wait until you crawl back up again. Shawnee, as small as it is, and as simple as it is, is unbeatable due to its fast lift. You zip up and down, and every time when you ski down, you still remember very well how the previous run was, so that you can adjust your skiing, pick better path in a given spot, etc.
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Crowds? What crowds? Compared to BM on a weekend, those were empty slopes. Seriously though after seeing the parking lot at 8:30am I was fearing that the two slow lifts would be a bottleneck, but to my great surprise I haven't really noticed this. We've never been to Montage before. Bought some vouchers from the Sally's thread and initially wanted to spend them on the blackout weekend but after seeing weather forecast decided to go there today. And didn't miss! Not a single raindrop all day until 3pm. The mountain is funny, DD slopes are indeed DD, especially that White Lightning, but blue slopes deserve at most green rating. Initially we didn't like it, especially since the long haul lift didn't work, and we got stuck on DD slopes. Then it turned out that the long haul lift is also slow as hell, and it was taking 13 minutes to ride it... And people are complaining about connecting lift on MC Really, if it was an express, things would've been much, much better. Finally discovered not very trafficked and interesting trails and looped them. I think they were Fastrack and Canonball. The first one is remote, so not too many people, and Canonball is just an interesting sequence of drops with flatter parts in between. Snow was wet and spring, holding well. By 1pm some bumps formed and ice spots appeared. I got the feeling that snow conditions can really vary at Montage. The coverage on the top part looks thin, plenty of dirt spots here and there, and there were also talks on the lifts about some trails closed during the week. I'd love to spend more time there, the lower part of the mountain in the forest is quite beautiful, and the crowds are thin, but the commute is too long for us, driving 2:30 one way is only borderline worth it.
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Maybe I had their length in mind, not count
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Ingenious! Twice as less edges to sharpen!!
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I don't think it's worth doing a separate trail report for this. But yeah, I'm skiing your tickets, so it's not totally off topic.
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But hey, they have tap beer on the snow and Dire Straits on the radio. Not all is lost.
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The amazing part is that they have a race course on the slow part! After seeing yesterday's race at BM this looks totally like a joke.
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Heeey, looky what I found in Montage thread Don't worry, you wouldn't survive in that storm for an hour. Would call it quits and retreat to your hotel for IPA and towels. Montage is sick. 14 mins up, 2 mins down. Looong and slow top, then out of the blue short unreasonably steep part and we're back on lift. Shawnee is so much better.
